[squeak-dev] Squeak Board minutes - 11/19/12
Chris Cunnington
smalltalktelevision at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 13:12:24 UTC 2012
Members attending: Bert Freudenberg, Colin Putney, Chris Muller, Randal
Schwartz, Chris Cunnington, Craig Latta
- Squeak4.4 is going to be released soon
- The election process is being reviewed to secure an election manager
so Göran doesn't have to do it forever
- David T. Lewis set up automatic building of 64-bit images [1], and Ian
Piumarta provides a Linux VM to run these images [2]. The Board explored
what could be done with such an image. The main thing it allows is
having larger object memories. One idea was a system that would log all
message sends and state changes, so we could have an omniscient debugger
(e.g., a person could play back everything that happened in the previous
half hour). This relates to Gilad Bracha's blog post "Debug Mode Is The
Only Mode" [3]. One thing necessary for a wider adoption of 64-bit
images would be providing VMs for Windows and Mac, and making some
remaining plugins work with 64-bits.
- Craig Latta is about to release the first modules for the Naiad module
system for Spoon: Chronos and Quoth. Craig has a process of
"spoonifying" an application written in regular code. Chronos is Alan
Lovejoy's date/time library [4] and Quoth is Craig's own musical
live-coding system [5].
- Tim Rowledge is waiting to receive in the mail a Raspberry Pi with
which he aims to provide a current RiscOS platform for Squeak. Being the
original ARM maintainer of the Squeak VM, he intends to adapt his
existing RiscOS code for the Raspbery Pi.
- Colin Putney is in the process of reviewing and releasing a new
revision of Filesystem [6]
- Chris C. has developed a prototype of a new squeak.org homepage. It's
latest version can be found at [7]. It is an Altitude website. There are
questions about the site on two fronts: how it looks; and, how stable it
is. There has been doubt about how the site should look. Opinions about
its design, logo, layout, CSS, etc. are welcome. Herbert Konig is
helping to harden it with the Selenium testing suite. [8] [9] The most
recent image has been up for +200 hours without a problem. Colin has
added changes to Altitude, which will be deployed soon.
[1]
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-November/166422.html
[2] http://squeakvm.org/unix/
[3] http://gbracha.blogspot.ca/
[4] http://chronos-st.blogspot.com/
[5] http://netjam.org/quoth/
[6] http://wiresong.ca/filesystem/
[7] http://box3.squeak.org:8624
[8] http://seleniumhq.org/
[9] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/selenium-ide/
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